Albert Pike was born on December 29, 1809, in Boston, and was the
oldest of six children born to Benjamin and Sarah Andrews Pike. He
studied at Harvard, and later served as a Brigadier-General in the
Confederate Army. After the Civil War, Pike was found guilty of
treason and jailed, only to be pardoned by fellow Freemason President
Andrew Johnson on April 22, 1866, who met with him the next day at
the White House. On June 20, 1867, Scottish Rite officials
conferred upon Johnson the 4th to 32nd Freemasonry
degrees, and he later went to Boston to dedicate a Masonic Temple.

Pike was said to be a genius, able to read and write in 16
different languages, although I cannot find a record anywhere of what
those languages were. In addition, he is widely accused of plagiarism,
so take with a pinch of salt. At various stages of his life we was a
poet, philosopher, frontiersman, soldier, humanitarian and
philanthropist. A 33rd degree Mason, he was one
of
the founding fathers, and head of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry, being the Grand Commander of North American
Freemasonry from 1859 and retained that position until his death in
1891. In 1869, he was a top leader in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Pike was said to
be a Satanist, who indulged in the occult, and he apparently
possessed a bracelet which he used to summon Lucifer, with whom
he had constant communication. He was the Grand Master of a Luciferian
group known as the Order of the Palladium (or Sovereign Council
of Wisdom), which had been founded in Paris in 1737. Palladism had been
brought to Greece from Egypt by Pythagoras in the fifth century,
and it was this cult of Satan that was introduced to the inner
circle of the Masonic lodges. It was aligned with the Palladium of the
Templars. In 1801, Issac Long, a Jew, brought a statue of
Baphomet (Satan) to Charleston, South Carolina, where he helped to
establish the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Long apparently chose
Charleston because it was geographically located on the 33rd
parallel of latitude (incidentally, so is Baghdad), and this council is
considered to be the Mother Supreme Council of all Masonic Lodges of the
World.

Pike was Long’s successor, and he changed the name of the
Order to the New and Reformed Palladian Rite (or Reformed
Palladium). The Order contained two degrees:

Adelph (or
Brother)

Companion of
Ulysses (or Companion of Penelope)

Pike’s right-hand man
was Phileas Walder, from Switzerland, who was a former Lutheran
minister, a Masonic leader, occultist, and spiritualist. Pike
also worked closely with Giusseppe Mazzini of Italy (1805-1872)
who was a 33rd degree Mason, who became head of
the Illuminati in 1834, and who
founded the Mafia in 1860. Together with Mazzini, Lord
Henry Palmerston of England (1784-1865, 33rd degree
Mason), and Otto von Bismarck from Germany (1815-1898, 33rd
degree Mason), Albert Pike intended to use the Palladian Rite to
create a Satanic umbrella group that would tie all Masonic groups
together.

Albert Pike died on April 2, 1891, and was buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery, although the corpse of Pike currently lies in the
headquarters of the Council of the 33rd degree of the
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Washington, D.C. (see The Deadly
Deception, by Jim Shaw - former 33rd degree Mason
and Past Master of all Scottish Rite bodies.)

The Albert Pike
Monument

Albert Pike made his mark before the war in Arkansas as a lawyer
and writer, but as a Confederate Brigadier General, he was, according to
the Arkansas Democrat of July 31, 1978, a complete "WASH-OUT," not a
hero. Yet, Gen. Albert Pike is
the
only Confederate general with a statue on federal property in
Washington, DC. He was honoured, not as a commander or even as a lawyer,
but as Southern regional leader of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The
statue stands on a pedestal near the foot of Capitol Hill, between the
Department of Labor building and the Municipal Building, between 3rd
and 4th Streets, on D Street, NW. More detail about the
monument, including a photo and map, on the right.
Further background on the colorful history of the statue can be found at
the Masonic Info website.

During the 1992 presidential
campaign, Lyndon H. LaRouche and his vice presidential running
mate, the Reverend James Bevel, launched a mobilization to remove
the statue of General Albert Pike from Washington, D.C.’s Judiciary
Square. On February 1, the campaign drew an angry attack from
freemasonic leader C. Fred Kleinknecht, who attempted to defend
both Pike and the Ku Klux Klan from LaRouche and Bevel’s attack. A
speech given by LaRouche defending his actions
can be found here (March 20, 1992). And
a speech by Anton Chaitkin entitled ’Why Albert Pike’s Statue
Must Fall’
can be found here (September 21, 1992).

The Illuminati and
Albert Pike

Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1811) formed the Order of
Perfectibilists on May 1, 1776 (to this day celebrated as May Day
throughout many western countries), which later became known as the
Illuminati, a secret society whose name means "Enlightened Ones".
Although the Order was founded to provide an opportunity for the free
exchange of ideas, Weishaupt’s background as a Jesuit seems to
have influenced the actual character of the society, such that the
express aim of this Order became to abolish Christianity, and
overturn all civil government.

An Italian revolutionary leader, Giusseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), a
33rd degree Mason, was selected by
the Illuminati to head their worldwide
operations in 1834. (Mazzini also founded the Mafia in
1860). Because of Mazzini’s revolutionary activities in Europe, the
Bavarian government cracked down on the Illuminati and other secret
societies for allegedly plotting a massive overthrow of Europe’s
monarchies. As the secrets of the Illuminati were revealed, they were
persecuted and eventually disbanded, only to re-establish themselves in
the depths of other organizations, of which Freemasonry was one.

During his leadership, Mazzini enticed Albert Pike into
the (now formally disbanded, but still operating) Illuminati. Pike was
fascinated by the idea of a
one world government, and when asked by Mazzini,
readily agreed to write a ritual tome that guided the transition from
average high-ranking mason into a top-ranking Illuminati mason (33rd
degree). Since Mazzini also wanted Pike to head the
Illuminati’s American chapter, he clearly felt Pike was worthy of such a
task. Mazzini’s intention was that once a mason had made his way up the
Freemason ladder and proven himself worthy, the highest ranking members
would offer membership to the secret ’society within a society’.

It is for this reason that most Freemasons vehemently deny the evil
intentions of their fraternity. Since the vast majority never reach the
30th degree, they would not be aware of the real purpose
behind Masonry. When instructing Pike how the tome should be
developed, Mazzini wrote the following to Pike in a letter dated
January 22, 1870. Remember that Freemasonry wasn’t started by Pike -
rather it was infiltrated by the Illuminati who were looking for
a respectable forum in which to hide their clandestine activities:

"We must allow all the
federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their
central authorities and their diverse modes of correspondence
between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at the
present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown,
to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall
select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be
pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will
govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international
center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown." 1

After Mazzini’s death on March 11, 1872, Pike appointed
Adriano Lemmi (1822-1896, 33rd degree Mason), a banker
from Florence, Italy, to run their subversive activities in Europe.
Lemmi was a supporter of patriot and revolutionary Giuseppe
Garibaldi, and may have been active in the Luciferian Society
founded by Pike. Lemmi, in turn, was succeeded by Lenin
and Trotsky, then by Stalin. The revolutionary activities
of all these men were financed by British, French, German, and American
international bankers; all of them dominated by
the House of Rothschild.

Between 1859 and 1871, Pike worked out a military blueprint for
three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world which he
considered would forward the conspiracy to its final stage in the 20th
Century.

In addition to the Supreme Council in Charleston, South Carolina,
Pike established Supreme Councils in Rome, Italy (led by
Mazzini); London, England (led by Palmerston); and
Berlin, Germany (led by Bismarck). He set up 23
subordinate councils in strategic places throughout the world, including
five Grand Central Directories in Washington, DC (North America),
Montevideo (South America), Naples (Europe), Calcutta (Asia), and
Mauritius (Africa), which were used to gather information. All of these
branches have been the secret headquarters for the Illuminati’s
activities ever since.